Managing Data Usage on Your Phone Plan

Data usage on your phone plan.

This support article will give you key information about keeping track of data usage on your phone plan. It will also provide tips to help you avoid going over your data allowance.

How to manage data usage on your phone plan.

The best way to manage data usage on your phone plan is through My Lebara
You can get a Data Add-on through My Lebara.
Most smartphones also have in-built data monitors to provide details of your data usage.

How much data will you need?

As an estimate, here’s a guide describing how much data you’ll need each month for various online activities. These estimates are based on typical sizes and are subject to change – your usage may vary but in general we estimate streaming videos/movies in standard definition at 0.7GB per hour, streaming music at 128MB per hour and app downloads at 1GB per item – all on the Vodafone 3G and 4G mobile network. As apps become more sophisticated and cameras create higher resolution images and video, it’s likely that your data consumption will increase.

Tips for limiting your data usage

Here are some other ways you can limit your data usage.

Connect to Wifi

When you’re connected to a WiFi network, you won’t use your plan’s mobile data.